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Kantate: Zuweilen ruft mich eine Stille

Cantata by Herbert Blendinger (b. 1936)

1. An Gott  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: German (Deutsch) 
Du wehrst den guten und den bösen Sternen nicht;
All ihre Launen strömen.
In meiner Stirne schmerzt die Furche,
Die tiefe Krone mit dem düsteren Licht.

Und meine Welt ist still-
Du wehrtest meiner Laune nicht.
Gott, wo bist du?

Ich möchte nah an deinem Herzen lauschen,
Mit deiner fernsten Nähe mich vertauschen,
Wenn goldverklärt in deinem Reich
Aus tausendseligem Licht
Alle die guten und bösen Brunnen rauschen.

Text Authorship:

  • by Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945), "An Gott", appears in Meine Wunder, appears in Hebräische Balladen, no. 5, appears in Gedichte 1906 bis 1913, Verlag der Weißen Bücher Leipzig , first published 1911

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "À Dieu", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Confirmed with Else Lasker-Schüler, Werke und Briefe. Kritische Ausgabe, herausgegeben von Norbert Oellers, Heinze Rölleke und Itta Shedletzky, Band 1 Gedichte, bearbeitet von Karl Jürgen Skrodzki unter Mitarbeit von Norbert Oellers, Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag, 1996, page 113 (Gedichte 1906 bis 1913; in this version the poem has no stanzas and the word "rauschen" is repeated at the end) and page 160 (Hebräische Balladen).


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